Stearns v. Clapp

Citations

• 16 S.D. 558
• 94 N.W. 430
• 1903 S.D. LEXIS 124

Syllabus

<p>Where a landowner wrote plaintiff that be would sell the land for $1,400 net, in reply to which plaintiff wrote that the offer was accepted, and that the deed, when executed, should be sent to a bank, to be turned over to plaintiff on payment to it of $1,400, and that, if the owner had an abstract, he should send it with the deed, or write the bank to allow for one to be made, plaintiff’s letter constituted a new proposal, and there was no contract.</p>